Camel Jockeys, Mexican Desperados, Male Bashing Show Girls: Coke's '13 Super Bowl Chase Ad
Obviously, these commercials are a complex mash of every seducing and agitating cultural hook they can metaphorically lay claim to.
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American Workers Broken and Angry… The Perfect Advertising Opportunity!
So, the hot trend in corporate advertising is to repurpose the "stress" and "sense of rebellion" American workers are feeling today ... for whatever reason??
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Mitt Photo-Op of the Day: Solar Eclipse
Mitt, playing for soundbites, upstaged by a building.
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Coming Soon: The Joseph Kony Tour Package
Geo-politics meets compassion marketing meets war tourism.
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The Clint Eastwood Chrysler "Half Time in America" Controversy, and the Doctored Wisconsin Footage
It may be safer to say that Chrysler’s Halftime in America ad is more accurately seen through the lens of doctored video footage to be a pro-corporate, anti-union advertisement than any other kind of political statement.
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Pussycats in the Clouds: Go Daddy Paints Super Bowl 2012
The visuals remind us that on Super Bowl Sunday, the only thing that viewers consume more of than chips and beer is women’s bodies.
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Matthew’s Day Off: Or, Why 2012 Super Bowl Ads Drowning in Nostalgia
In the Super Bowl ad nostalgia of 2012, corporations and advertising people they employ are working hard to convince us that things in this decade aren’t so different from the past fifty or so years. ...Funny why that is.
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Combining Children with Scare Tactics in Georgia’s Anti-Obesity Campaign
The ads consciously manipulate feelings of guilt and fear in an effort to capture attention. The only question is, whose attention are they trying to get?
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Occupy is not a Frickin' Maybelline Ad
You know what's messed up? It's when a cosmetics company turns a populist and embattled movement for economic justice into giggly, jiggly mind-numbing hamburger for the sake of peddling lip balm.
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